Bug 137591 - screensaver shows big X instead of selected screensaver
Summary: screensaver shows big X instead of selected screensaver
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 75254
Alias: None
Product: kscreensaver
Classification: Unmaintained
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: unspecified Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: kscreensaver bugs tracking
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Reported: 2006-11-19 21:26 UTC by Joshua
Modified: 2008-05-19 17:59 UTC (History)
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Description Joshua 2006-11-19 21:26:17 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.5)
Installed from:    Unlisted Binary Package
OS:                Linux

No matter what screensaver I select, when it comes on automatically it displays a huge 'X'. Using the 'test' button shows the screensaver fine however. I am on archlinux and this happened right after upgrading to 3.5.5.

I did not find a duplicate bug but found this thread that seems to be same issue:
http://63.238.77.251/?l=kde-redhat-users&m=116135315621135&w=2
Comment 1 Nick Warne 2006-11-20 19:16:47 UTC 
There are several related to this annoyance.  I thought I fixed it, but it still happens:

Bug: 136891
Bug: 136315
Comment 2 Joshua 2006-11-22 16:26:46 UTC 
I just installed powersaved, kpowersave and made myself a user of the power group and now I get a screensaver. I am not sure this is related but it's the only difference I can think of. Perhaps powersave is activating the screensaver on its own and bypassing the default process? I disabled klaptopdeamon.
Comment 3 Erik Logtenberg 2006-11-26 22:08:17 UTC 
I have no screensaver configured, in Control Center the screensaver checkbox is disabled.

Nevertheless since I upgraded to KDE 3.5.5 this same big white X on a black background keeps popping up.
When I tried "xset q" in a shell, it showed:

> Screen Saver:
>  prefer blanking:  no    allow exposures:  yes
>  timeout:  310    cycle:  600

Notice the "timeout: 310", this is entirely different from what I had configured in Control Center.
I did "xset s off", and now it shows:

>  timeout:  0    cycle:  600

So it seems to be finally disabled now. I have no clue though why KDE doesn't set this right. This problem arose when I upgraded to 3.5.5, so either it's a new bug, or something went fishy during upgrade.
Comment 4 Erik Logtenberg 2006-11-27 10:38:27 UTC 
Hm, bad news: the above didn't even disable this screensaver. Now I'm really out of options. Any ideas?
Comment 5 majvan 2007-01-25 17:17:41 UTC 
I have similar problem: sometimes I have 'big X' and sometimes selected screensaver appears.
I use often opera (www browser) as another user (uid 502) in the KDE session (ran with uid 501). This is the only think I can report as the result of random activation between "my screensaver" and "the big X screensaver".
Comment 6 Nick Warne 2007-01-29 20:04:38 UTC 
This appears to be fixed in 3.5.6 - it is now like it was in 3.5.4 :-)

Nick
Comment 7 Oswald Buddenhagen 2007-05-18 22:03:40 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 75254 ***